Hi All -
There's a new installer ISO out there for testing. The major change is
that the installer now boots the "original" Red Hat 2.4.7 kernel (with
xfs, of course) rather than the updated 2.4.9 kernel. Several people
reported hardware problems with the last iso, hopefully this kernel
change will remedy that. If you were having trouble before, please try
this release. If it worked for you before, please make sure it still
does!
Here's a nifty trick - if you already downloaded the original iso, use
rsync to cut your download time by 60%:
$ mv sgi-image-i386-Nov04-01.iso sgi-image-i386-Nov13-16.iso
$ rsync
rsync://oss.sgi.com/xfsftp/testing/RH7.2-installer/sgi-image-i386-Nov13-16.iso
./sgi-image-i386-Nov13-16.iso
wrote 88633594 bytes read 107226 bytes 11918.72 bytes/sec
total size is 292880384 speedup is 3.30
$
Changelog
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sgi-image-i386-Nov13-16.iso
* Incorporate the changes below into the iso itself
* Boot with the original Red Hat 2.4.7 (+xfs) kernel, not 2.4.9
updates-Nov07-14.img:
* Disallow spaces in lilo boot label (generic RH bug)
* Fix up (r) symbol in text welcome screen
updates-Nov07-13.img:
* Add time that bootloader install waits before trying grub
(temp workaround for fs/grub interaction problems)
* Skip past SGI screen during kickstart
* Remove "registered" character from first screen, GTK didn't like it.
* Allow setting of labels on XFS filesystems
* Do not allow bootloader to be placed on 1st sector of XFS partition
Have fun,
-Eric
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Eric Sandeen XFS for Linux http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs
sandeen@xxxxxxx SGI, Inc.